The 100 oldest .com domains on the internet.
To satisfy my curiosity, I went in search of the earliest adopters of the World Wide Web as we know it today and to my surprise there were WWW dns entries that go back as far as 1985…can you believe that…now who was browsing the internet back in 1985 (other than Al Gore). Anyways, the list below represents the 100 first domains ever registered on the internet…it includes some expected names, some unexpected names and some notable missing names. (NB. Entries registered on the same days are in random order on that day.) 1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM 2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM 3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM 4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM 5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM 6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM 7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM 8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM 9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM 10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM 11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM 12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM 13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM 14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM 15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM 16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM 17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM 18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM 19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM 20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM 21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM 22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM 23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM 24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM 25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM 26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM 27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM 28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM 29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM 30. 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM 31. 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM 32. 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM 33. 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM 34. 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM 35. 7-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM 36. 7-Oct-1986 NEC.COM 37. 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM 38. 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM 39. 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM 40. 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM 41. 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM 42. 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM 43. 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM 44. 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM 45. 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM 46. 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM 47. 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM 48. 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM 49. 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM 50. 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM 51. 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM 52. 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM 53. 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM 54. 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM 55. 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM 56. 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM 57. 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM 58. 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM 59. 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM 60. 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM 61. 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM 62. 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM 63. 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM 64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM 65. 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM 66. 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM 67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM 68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM 69. 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM 70. 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM 71. 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM 72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM 73. 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM 74. 14-May-1987 RDL.COM 75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM 76. 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM 77. 27-May-1987 UTC.COM 78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM 79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM 80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM 81. 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM 82. 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM 83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM 84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM 85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM 86. 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM 87. 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM 88. 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM 89. 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM 90. 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM 91. 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM 92. 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM 93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM 94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM 95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM 96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM 97. 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM 97. 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM 99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM 100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM Recent Posts: The 15 Most Iconic Cars from Movies Top 10 Most Bizarre Las Vegas Attractions
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It still amazes me that symbolics.com is the first domain name registered. I would have imagined it to belong to maybe IBM or at least AT&T or some big name.
And what’s more amazing is that some of these domains predate the World Web Wide (aka the Internet as we know it) by at least half a decade. Those who would have been using those domains probably used it to share data with others rather than to surf around for information.
But, 22 years. Wow.
Wow good stuff. Scary also.
Reminds me of my depression, because I am growing old. This article made me feel even worse.
Aside that, interesting post. And also a good one.
These sound interesting :)
SYMBOLICS.COM
THINK.COM
SUN.COM
STARGATE.COM
PYRAMID.COM
VORTEX.COM
ENTITY.COM
Actually, Symbolics wasn’t the first. BBN was. Look at the list, the dates on the first two are in the wrong order. ;)
Ok, scratch my last, read as May, not Mar! Oops!
Very cool list. An interesting study to delve deeper would be how many of these were originally registered by the same company they are currently owned by. I think it’s safe to assume that att.com, sun.com, hp.com, and so on were all owned by the computer-oriented businesses from the start, but has pyramid.com always been the modern pyramid.com? What about stargate.com? The modern Stargate datacenter wasn’t founded until 1989.
Out of curiosity, what domains did you find missing? Everything I’d expect to find on this list was there, though there were several surprises.
The only things I thought were missing weren’t missing once I realized this was a list of .COMs only. Most of the truly early adopters are all .EDUs. (ucla.edu: 24-Apr-1985, mit.edu: 23-May-1985, uiuc.edu: 18-Jul-1985, nyu.edu: 08-Oct-1986, jhu.edu: 19-Mar-1987, etc…)
Aehm…
How can you tell that back in 1985 there have been DNS IN A RR named “www” ?
Back in 1985 there was no “World Wide Web”. TBL began to work on that 1989.
And last but not least: what about the other gTLDs: .mil .net .org. .edu and .gov?
As RFC 882 is of 1983 there might exist some older domains.
Interesting X-ian, I’ll have to look into your comments in more depth.
First off, I was surprised to see Cayman.com and alcoa.com…that was very forward thinking of them. Notably missing for me was Commodore…Microsoft - matter of fact MS never came until 02-may-1991 …compuserve/AOL people you would figure would have great interest in this emerging technology (Though Compuserve did jump in late ‘88) …anyone else surprised by any of the entries… or lack thereof?
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This is a cool post. Geeks like me love this kind of stuff. I’ll add it to my collection of mostly useless, but “pretty neat anyway” collection of trivia. Thanks.
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The weird thing to think about is that most if not all of these were registered for free. I’m not exactly sure when it started to cost money to register domain names, but I think it was some time after 1990.
Very interesting list!
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In 1985, the “Web” was still a very new “computer thing” that most people did not know what to do with…
When you spoke about it they looked at you like you had 2 heads on your shoulders…
It took a while for the world to understand what had just happend…
“now who was browsing the internet back in 1985 (other than Al Gore).”
I was browsing back then, probably a closer to 1987. That was back when I worked for Lockheed. We were beginning to modify WAIS. I used LYNX to surf and later on used Trumpet to read Newsgroups.
Damn, I’m getting old.
Lee
I have to admit, symbolics.com surprised me too. Very interesting and unexpected.
Lee Lepore:
its quite amazing you were browsing with lynx before either of them were invented. did lockheed invent a time machine?
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I’ve seen the old code for Yahoo.com (which can still be applied and navigated from). I wonder what these websites looked like in 1985 and what kind of functionality they had.
Damn, I wasn’t even in kindergarten when these sites when up!
I’m pretty sure you’ll find that they looked like nothing back in 1985. There was no such thing as the WWW then. Back when I got on the Internet in 1990 or so, there was gopher, and a lot of telnet-able BBS’s and MUDs, usenet, IRC, and some public access Unixes. That was about it, as far as I’m aware. A lot of text gaming and BBSing for me, then. Oh, FTP of course… but back in those days it would take months for software to get on the Internet, you could get PC software much faster on the dialup BBS’s.
it is amazing with internet and blogging. No wonder why people hang with their computers instea of assossiate, hahaha
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whoa! i love this research, this is very good to know who the pace setters are. somewhere in ‘85, oh my, my country was still languishing in mass poverty, coup d’tal and corruption. nobody ever heard of the internet.
The world wide web did not exist at the time of this, however, there was an internet, more like a big group of shared networks back then. I think .edu sites were the first t adopt the www but not the internet itself. Also, is this a list of still existing or the first period? That could help sort some things out.
Note this is .com only. There are equally old records in .edu.
You’re on Fark.com!
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Even these dates are probably renewals, or perhaps a date some database was reconstructed. I was responsible for registering #33, inmet.com (which was owned by Intermetrics, Inc.,- a long defunct SW development company). I am sure we were using inmet.com at least a year before 1986. Since we were nowhere near the first- I suspect there are even earlier dates yet to be discovered. In those days, we tried to limit domain names to 8 (!) characters ;-) Since this was pre-DNS, in those days “registering” a domain meant getting one of the guys in California to put your name in their huge and growing /etc/hosts file
Amazing !!
If the WHOIS Data is correct,
sex.com was registered in : 18-Oct-1995
Oh my. Some of those sites are older than me.
Takes me back a ways. I remember the “internet” back before much standardization (not that it’s gotten all the better with all of the different languages, active x vs java and browsers). 300 BAUD modems and not a lot of error checking. This is pre-1985 when it was mostly used by colleges, military and military contractors and back when hacking was still fun.
i have only visited 6 out of 100!!!
dang mate where did you got those name!
some names i have never ever seen and some others i know they are there i just dont bother to visit
Symbolics.com looks like it hasn’t been updated since 1985, either.
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Since someone mentioned .edu, is there any older there which i missed?
24-Apr-1985 ucla.edu
24-Apr-1985 berkeley.edu
23-May-1985 mit.edu
Funny that some people here were surfing the net with Lynx in 1987 when the browser was developed 1992.
HTML/HTTP ist from 1989.
The first browser is from 1991.
Gopher - what some here believe they surfed in 1990 before http - is from 1991.
And in the beginning of the internet it was quite common to use IP adresses for news and http://ftp. People at my university shared lists with IP hosts around 1990.
Peace
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This really is interesting….
It would very good if you some exercise to find out the which of the blog have regigtered higher than 10000 visits per year on a continuous bsis and which have increased visits in last year over the previous year.
CMU.EDU - 24-Apr-1985
RICE.EDU - 24-Apr-1985
There must have been a series of schools that registered the same day…
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Those would have been good times to be a domain name squatter.
And here I was thinking that my xaymaca.com was special because I registered it in 96.
Such a late starter am I.
Oh cool..you own Xaymaca.com….I always wanted to own that domain name :)
Interesting. The real question is, how far back was the first porn site?
jeremy, my sources are telling me the first p-site was created in 1990.
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“some notable missing names”
you were thinking about Microsoft, right ?
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Interesting to see the changes in just 22 years…
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The above link is a wakeup when you think it’s less than 20 yrs since Lynx saw daylight… ;)
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When I first heard of the “internet” in 1990 my first thought was “How can I make money using this new thing” second thought came “PORN”. Unfortunately I had neither special knowledge of the tech involved or the start-up money… therefore I am still an impovrished republican.
It amazes me to understand that it was only 20 years ago! The mobile telephone also came so recently. I will be more delighted if the world could see more miraculous events like these in the near future too. Perhaps a cure for spinal chord injury. A medicine for AIDS and cancer. I am sure it would happen within the next 20 years.
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Thanks, fun list! Loved the Al Gore comment too!
Where is the information on these registrations and dates from?
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surprised cray research wasn’t in this list. but why microsoft? were they not a late adopter of IP, being more concerned w/ DOS on desktops and later their own NetFlooey (spelling might be wrong) protocol for their wannabe peer-to-peer? who did they steal an IP stack from anyway?
Yes they were but back in the early days the internet was used more internally by large corps and schools before someone said…”hey, let’s make some money here”. That’s why I was surprised that SmallFloppy wasn’t there. To me it speaks to my opinion of microsoft…they don’t take risks…and they always follow the leaders…been that way since the begining and is still that way today. My .02c.
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This pops up everyone once in a while but nevertheless is always an interesting read. Thanks for posting!
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I was a test engineer at Symbolics in the summer of 1984 working with the prototype L machine and the first generation production models. We had direct access to ARPANet at the time and if memory serves there were only about 250 nodes on the ARPANet at the time. You won’t believe this but there were mostly no passwords for any of the machines then!
We mostly used hard ip addressing to communicate and even send email and files at the time. I was able to use telnet at my desk (In Chatsworth 9600 Desoto in LA) and log into the computer in the R&D center in Palo Alto. I then was able to use that computer in Palo Alto to telnet to the computer at the Software R&D center at MIT. I then used that comptuer at MIT to log into and transfer files around this round robin of computers for a network test.
It was a lot of fun.
There were .mil and .edu addresses in prototype in 1984 but everything was done on an ad hoc basis. It was the popularity of the LISP machine that started to force some regularity to the system. Too bad that the people who were running the company were idiots (except for the manufacturing VP). I quit and put a defective sticker on the VP of engineering’s door on the way out.
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People have mentioned that this is only .com and that .edu has similar dates. It is interesting that even some domains in ccTLDs should be on the list. cwi.nl (I think that was the first domain in a ccTLD, not sure) was registered on 01-May-1986.
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What make this really UNinteresting is that you are dating back only to when the domain name heiarchy was created. In the early days of TCP/IP, as we called it then, there were no dots in domain names, just one not-so-big flat name space. There are many system on the Internet in those days, at sites that still exist, but there was no “.com” or “.edu”, or whatnot, just names. I was on “cmu10a”. The first spam was sent from “dec-marlboro”, and if you look at the To: list of the first spam (google for it), you will find domain names for a few commercial sites, like BBN, (bbn-tenexe) and of course the offending site, DEC (dec-marlboro). So, all you have really done is put a date on the transition to heiarchtical names, nothing more, and nothing significant about who the early adopters were.
i am humbled to know that the internet is older than i am. well, so is my nintendo, and i still use that
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Not an media/entertainment company to be found, shows how dismissive they all were of the internet back then (not even progressive media like MTV).
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But who was the first agency or company where to register a domain ?
For whoever asked, domain names were free until roughly the fall of 1995. I know this because I got my domain name in July 1995 and it was free. Back then you had to fill out a form with your info and say why you needed/wanted the domain name and its general purpose.
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Sly,
I remember when domains were free. I had several. Then, a couple of companies started adding tons of ads. After that, people started paying to have their websites hosted for a bit of money (or from their home computers) to keep it clean.
Ah, those were the days. Wait, what am I saying? I wasn’t even a teenager when I was doing that… X(
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The original posting and the comments following it are full of historical fallacies and errors:
* These registrations happened before the World Wide Web was invented, so all comments having to do with “surfing”, “sites”, “www”, etc. are far off the mark.
* Until 1988, commercial use of the Internet was not allowed. You could only use the Internet (and a fortiori have a domain name) if you had a contract with the DoD, either research (most .edu domains were for computer science departments with ARPA funding) or production. The media companies weren’t “dismissive”, they were simply not allowed to use the Internet — anyway, what would they have done with it pre-www?
* The Internet existed before domain name registration, and its predecessor the Arpanet started in 1969. Its usage grew steadily, but exponentially, starting very early on.
* The main applications of the Arpanet/Internet before the WWW were FTP, email, and Telnet (also RJE for some users). Usenet News, though it started on Usenet, was also transported by Internet sometimes. WAIS and Gopher arrived in 1991, but were overtaken by WWW soon thereafter.
* Almost all communication across the Arpanet/Internet was either straight unformatted text or binaries. The software for convenient handling of formatted text, images, audio, etc. wasn’t there.
* Almost all users of the Arpanet/Internet before 1990 were techies, and there was very little support for non-technical users.
* The PC world and the “serious computing” world didn’t have much to do with one another until the late 1980s.
* Corporate networking, to the extent it existed at all, was almost entirely on proprietary networking standards (Token Ring, DECnet, Arcnet, Ethernet), not on TCP/IP.
Well, that’s enough for now. There’s some info on all this on Wikipedia.
-s
NYNEXST.COM may be the oldest but they need to update that website. Looks like a 1st grader made it.
This is really fantastic
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I was a network guy for AlliantTechSystems in the late 80’s & registered atk.com about the middle of 1990. As I recall it didn’t cost anything. We were restricted though in that we could make ‘commercial use’ of it. Mostly it was for email & ftp to DoD.
Given some of the other comments here I have kids older than most of you!
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The 100 oldest domains on the internet (So old Al gore didn’t even regester them!)
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I saw this list on http://www.SubliminalMessages.com and would like to know if any of thse top 100 names are available for sale today? I think it would be exceptionally cool (in a geeky way) to own one.